Corfù

Corfu’s historical centre with its two Venetian fortresses and its historical ports, is not only an important well preserved historic monument but also a place of unique natural beauty. On its present location, it is uninterruptedly inhabited for at least 1400 years and in nowadays the historical centre, houses in its over aged buildings, a minimum number of 10.000 inhabitants.

The redaction of the Management Plan in the year 2005 set for the first time the main issues to meet to develop a sustainable management for the protection and the preservation of the monument. Due to various reasons the Management Plan has not yet found a way for its full application, mostly because of conflicts between decision makers and other complexities. Municipality of Corfu sees the possibility, as a partner on the HISTORICCENTRES_NET project, to develop initiatives, which will lead to the formation of a strategy for the application of the Plan’s main actions concerning the sustainable urban management of the Site.

The main subjects being worked on at local level concern:

• Preservation of the inhabitant’s life quality in the historic centre in association with social economic regeneration and improvement of urban functions.
•  Visitor’s management in association with the preservation of the residential character of the historic town.
• Feasible and sustainable scenarios for citizens to have important role on social based interventions.

As a result of the proposed application strategies, our Municipality intends to implement on a workout base a number of sustainable actions on a selected district of the historic centre. All the actions will be monitored and revaluated with the final goal to issue a number of implementation norms, which will be applied on Corfu city’s Master Plan and Urban Plan.